The audience laughs, too, at the foreshadowing here. Sir Thomas hesitates because he's heard stories about cousins falling in love and doesn't want some random poor cousin marrying one of his sons.Price could really do with one fewer kid and proposes that Sir Thomas let the eldest Price daughter, age nine, come live at Mansfield. The Bertrams didn't want the kid, but they did send letters and money and advice.She wanted to send her eldest son to live with the Bertrams to work for Sir Thomas. So she wrote to the Bertrams to ask for some help.Price had a really big family (eight kids with a ninth on the way) and not enough money to deal with all the kids. Norris and Lady Bertram didn't speak to her for years. Frances had defied her family when she married the sailor, and Mrs. The Ward sisters grew apart accordingly.Price, who became poorer and drunker as the years went by. The last Miss Ward, Frances, had the worst marriage of all – she wed a poor sailor named Mr.Norris who didn't have a ton of money, but wasn't poor. She became Lady Bertram and the two lived in Sir Thomas's fancy pad, Mansfield Park. Thirty years ago a Miss Maria Ward married a guy named Sir Thomas Bertram.
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